June 6, 2004, Sunday

Samuel Dash, a champion of legal ethics who became nationally known during the Watergate scandal as the Senate's methodical chief counsel, died Saturday after a long illness. He was 79. Mr. Dash, a professor at the Georgetown University Law Center...

May 31, 2004, Monday

Samuel Dash, a champion of legal ethics who became nationally known during the Watergate scandal as the Senate's methodical chief counsel, died Saturday after a long illness. He was 79. Mr. Dash, a professor at the Georgetown University Law Center...

May 30, 2004, Sunday

Contrary to his public denials, the chief executive of the scandal-ridden United Way in the Washington area was aware of improper financial practices, was involved in them and disregarded those who tried to stop them, one of the charity's top...

To the Editor: Samuel Dash's plea to retain a modified independent counsel law (Op-Ed, Feb. 17) fails to confront two defects of the law in practice. There is no means to assure that qualified people are appointed and that appointees who have...

To the Editor: Samuel Dash (Op-Ed, Feb. 17) makes several valid points in his defense of the independent counsel law but misses the main issue: How much have we gained from this 20-year-old institution? The matter goes beyond Kenneth W. Starr's...

To the Editor: Samuel Dash (Op-Ed, Feb. 17) argues that the Independent Counsel Act should be reauthorized because ''without it, there is no way to investigate possible crimes by the President or any of his top aides or Cabinet officials.'' It...

February 21, 1999, Sunday

To the Editor: In a recent letter to Kenneth W. Starr, the independent counsel, Representative John Conyers Jr. asked Mr. Starr whether he knew while testifying before the committee last Thursday that Samuel Dash, his ethics adviser, would soon...

To the Editor: Samuel Dash damaged his own professional reputation far more than Kenneth W. Starr's by releasing a letter of resignation publicly rebuking his client (''Starr Ethics Aide Quits to Protest House Testimony,'' front page, Nov. 21).